West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 9/10/15
Steve Schlott provide the program speaker for our meeting who was non-other than Dan Brezani retired from the Flint Community School System and still very involved with the CANUSA Games. This was the 58th year of the CANUSA Games and for the first time the games did...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 9/3/15
We do not have a speaker chair for September, therefore we had no speaker for this meeting. Please contact President Jack if you can arrange for a speaker this month. $5K Raffle and dinner tickets are available from Jeff Dennings. Raffle tickets are $100 and dinner...
Downtown Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 9/1/15
This week we had David Leyton and John Potberry from the Genesee County Prosecutor’s office. They spoke about the issues of violent crime and early release on violent felons in the prison system., as well as many other topics. Have a safe labor day and we will see...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/27/15
Tracy Payton-Lester, our guest speaker for the morning, intorduced her program, “Ele’s Place, A Healing Center for Grieving Children & Teens”. The organization has 2 faces: (A) a school-based program (now positioned at both Beecher Schools and Whaley Children’s...
Downtown Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/25/15
Brooke brought us our speaker today from the Community Foundation. There was much discussion over their “Young Professionals” group, whose age ranges from 19-49. Our group encouraged Enosh and Nate to consider joining, seeing how they were the only ones in...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/20/15
The Genesee County Prosecuting Attorney’s office was well represented this morning by David Leyton and John Potbury, who gave a detailed, enlightening, and disturbing presentation on the recent efforts to “save money” in the state by reducing prison populations....
Downtown Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/18/15
I brought DeAndra McCain as our speaker today. She used to work with me over at Whaley, then was in sales at the Flint & Genesee Chamber. She recently accepted the position as the Director of the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. You can learn more about them here:...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/13/15
Ghassan Saab was our special guest speaker this morning, talking about the historical context, personal remembrances, and international (mis)perceptions of Lebanon and the Middle East, more generally. (Saab is associated with Sorenson Gross and is known to many of our...
Downtown Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/11/15
We had another great meeting. Murphy was still accepting well deserved complements for his work on the party and gave us some preliminary numbers on how well we did. Joe accepted my invitation to be our guest speaker on short notice. (he is after all the king of...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 7/30/15
Vice President Jeff Dennings, flush from his winnings of the 50/50 drawing last week and his successful bid on a Wolverines football package, rang the bell to open this week’s meeting, had Steve Schlott lead in the Pledge and Ken Cullen give the invocation. Before...